Need for Speed™ Rivals overview

Overview

Need for Speed™ Rivals comes from Criterion Games and is published by Electronic Arts. It arrived on Steam on Jun 4, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Full controller support, and Steam Trading Cards. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Need for Speed™ Rivals's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 49 players at 7 October 2026 - 06:19:30 UTC, with a tracked peak near 469. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 76% positive across 10,595 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Need for Speed™ Rivals is available in 11 languages including:

10 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, kgrb, and dejus

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Need for Speed™ Rivals has sold up to 320,910 units and has 9,321 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $3,383,170. On Twitch, 1 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Need for Speed™ Rivals overview details

Need for Speed™ Rivals combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Need for Speed™ Rivals: Complete Edition Online servers are no longer available. Own the complete Need for Speed™ Rivals experience. Get the full game, plus all six downloadable content packs with the Complete Edition. Key features 6 additional packs — Get the Simply Jaguar Complete Pack, the Ferrari Edizioni Speciali Complete Pack, the Concept Lamborghini Complete Pack, the Koenigsegg Agera One, the Complete Movie Pack, and the Loaded Garage Pack. Race with friends — Imagine your race and your friend’s pursuit colliding, creating a world where no 2 events feel the same. Don’t want to play with others? Simply choose to make Redview County yours alone and dominate the advanced Racer and Cop AI. High-stakes rivalry — Racers are lone wolves out for glory, driving agile cars built for high-speed racing and epic chases. Cops work in teams to hunt down and bust racers using the full power of the police force. Switch roles whenever you like, and watch the stakes grow through a new scoring system that puts your speed points on the line. Your car, your identity — Personalize your cars with performance and style modifications. Power up your car with the latest upgrades in pursuit technology and personalize your bodywork with fresh paint jobs, liveries, custom license plates, rims, and decals to show off your car to the world. Pursuit and evasion tech — Use the latest pursuit tech and modifications to change your pursuit or escape strategy on the fly. Racers evade Cops using turbo bursts, jammers, and electromagnetic pulses. Cops will be armed for aggressive busts, deploying shockwav…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Need for Speed™ Rivals is listed as a game with $6.99 (65% off from $19.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Full controller support, and Steam Trading Cards, and is associated with Action, Adventure, and Racing. SteamPulse's latest observation records 49 players at 7 October 2026 - 06:19:30 UTC, a tracked peak of 469, and 76% positive reviews.

Overview tags

RacingDrivingOpen WorldMultiplayerCombat RacingPvPActionArcadeThird PersonFirst-PersonSportsAtmosphericSingleplayerAdventureCo-op

Support and legal notes

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